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ppint. 9th Jun 2024		Book Christopher Priest - Indoctrinaire (1971)	indicia publishing history of the canadian-printed declared second printing states: pocket book edition published october, 1971 second printing ..... august, 1971 the canadian-printed "second printing" was intended for distribution north of the parallel
ppint. 9th Jun 2024		Book Christopher Priest - Indoctrinaire (1979)	pan macmillan pan books p/b first printing, not first uk p/b, first slightly shorter revised edition cover art by geoff taylor (unsigned, uncredited; on geofftaylor-artist.com website) cover price 75p (overseas territories prices) 192pp. including 6pp. titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp: 1p. author's note, 1p. advertising
ppint. 9th Jun 2024		Book Christopher Priest - Indoctrinaire (1971)	simon & schuster pocket books canadian mmpb "second printing" apparently first mmpb edition followed by merkin "first printing"; these may have been published simultaneously cover art by richard powers (unsigned, uncredited; his very distinctive style is recognisable) cover price 95¢ 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising canadian-printed copies bear a small maple leaf cutout in the richard powers artwork on the front cover
ppint. 9th Jun 2024		Book Christopher Priest - Indoctrinaire (1970)	faber & faber (he + himself) h/cvr first printing, first edition cover art (unsigned restricted palette (red & black, title left white) of ear on a wall) cover price £1.40 228pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, a blank end p, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 8th Jun 2024		Book Jules Verne - A Journey To The Center Of The Earth (1965)	at least three near-identical printings with rising cover prices, not fully reported/recorded: the material copyright noted as ©1965 in the thomas bouregy/airmont books indicia is the forward by robert a. w. lowndes ("doc lowndes") 1965 cat# CL60 no sbn (not yet invented) cover price 50¢ 256pp. including titles, indicia,forward etc. ... (1972??) cat# CL60 cover price 75¢ ... (c.1979 ?) cat# CL60 (cover price liable to've been c.95¢-$1.25) ... 6/1982 cat# CL60 isbn 0-8049-0060-4 cover price $1.50 front & back cover images provided by oldmod67 above
ppint. 7th Jun 2024		Book Liane Moriarty - Nine Perfect Strangers (2019)	random penguin group penguin first uk p/b printing first uk h/cvr edition random penguin group michael joseph imprint 2018 dedication: for kati. and for dad with lots of love from me cover art unsigned, uncredited other than images © getty images cover price £8.99 464p. including ten unnumbered pp. titles, indicia, 2pp. introductions, etc, 20 end pp. including acknowledgements, 3pp. interview, 1p. questions for discussion, 1p. how i created tranquilium house (nf) liane moriarty, 2pp. adverts, 8 blank pp. unexplained indicia printing number: from 001, rising through (at least) 020 which identifies the twentieth printing
ppint. 4th Jun 2024		Book Christopher De Hamel - Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts (2018)	random penguin group penguin books p/b first printing, probably first p/b edition first edition was published under allen lane, and this edition bears "an allen lane book" on back cover cover art unsigned, uncredited b+w frontispiece anonymous, reproduced from painting in the house of jean de navarre, paris c.1334 cover price £12.99, $27.99 can(ada) 656pp (640pp. including eight pages titles, indicia etc, plus 16pp. unnumbered colour plates section), 62 end pp: bibliographies and indices, 2 blank pp. unexplained indicia printing number: 001
ppint. 30th May 2024		Book Ivan Howard - 6 And The Silent Scream (1964)	contents: ask a foolish question - robert sheckley (short story) science fiction stories #1, undated (6/1953) children of fortune - d. a. jourdan (novelette) science fiction quarterly vol.4 #6, 2/1957 peace on earth - irving e. cox, jr. (ntte) future vol.5 #1, 6/1954 riddle of the deadly paradise - frank belknap long (ntte) (the original) science fiction stories vol.9 #4, 11/1958; strato bre #7, both as by charles long vulcan's hammer - philip k. dick (novella) future #29, 4/1956 the ear-friend - r. e. banks (ntte) (magazine title later prefixed, ''the original...'') science fiction stories vol.5 #5, 3/1955
ppint. 30th May 2024		Book Charles Willeford - The Machine In Ward Eleven (1963)	contents: the machine in ward eleven (novelette) playboy 3/1961 selected incidents (short story) (? 1962) a letter to a. a. (almost anybody) (ss) apparently original in this collection jake's journal (ntte) apparently original in this collection "just like on television -" (ss) apparently original in this collection the alectryomancer (ss) (? 1959)
ppint. 30th May 2024		Book Richard Aldington - Death Of A Hero (1965)	states "the first complete and unabridged edition" on front cover.
ppint. 30th May 2024		Book Richard Aldington - Death Of A Hero (1936)	states "complete unabridged" (split by "penguin looking left" logo) on front cover.
ppint. 25th May 2024		Book Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle (1983)	dell's mmpb cat# remained 1149 for many printings, through the beginnings of a renumbering that eventually turned into adopting the extension of the uk sbn system into the isbn system - isbn10 numbers each ending with the checksum digit. non-systematic numbers on the spines of some printings include 440-01149-125 where the final element is the merkin cover price in cents.
ppint. 25th May 2024		Book Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle (1983)	cover art by murray tinkelman (unsigned, retained from 9/1965 first dell mmpb printing where credited) cat# 11149 essentially retained from 9/1965 first dell mmpb printing cat# 1149 cover price u.s. $3.25, can(ada) $3.95 192pp. including titles, indicia etc.
ppint. 8th May 2024		Book Theodore Sturgeon - A Touch Of Strange (1959)	almost all mmpbs follow this, not the full contents of the doubleday first edition & book club editions, until the hamlyn paperbacks uk p/b & the daw mmpb 1978 editions, which are complete.
ppint. 8th May 2024		Book Theodore Sturgeon - A Touch Of Strange (1959)	publisher should^W has been corrected to "berkley medallion" as bookcat goes by the imprint, not the publishing group nor the ultimate corporate owner
ppint. 8th May 2024		Book Theodore Sturgeon - A Touch Of Strange (1978)	contents: mr costello, hero (novelette) galaxy vol.7 #3, 12/1953; galaxy strato bre #14, both: three b+w illustrations by ed emshwiller the touch of your hand (novella) galaxy vol.6 #6, 9/1953; galaxy strato bre vol.3 #11, both: three b+w illustrations by ed emshwiller affair with a green monkey (short story) venture vol.1 #3, 5/1957 a crime for llewellyn (ss) mike shayne mystery magazine 10/1957 it opens the sky (nlla) venture vol.1 #6, 9/1957, the cover story, art by ed emshwiller, with one b+w illustration by john giunta; venture atlas bre #9, 5/1964 a touch of strange (ss) f&sf vol.14 #1, 1/1958; venture atlas bre #20, 4/1965 the other celia (ss) galaxy vol.13 #5, 3/1957; galaxy strato bre #50, both: with one b+w illustration by diane dillon, leo dillon the pod in the barrier (ntte) galaxy vol.14 #5, 9/1957 with three b+w illustrations by wallace wood; galaxy strato bre #56, 11/1957 with one b+w illustration by wallace wood the girl had guts (ntte) venture vol.1 #1, 1/1957 with one b+w illustration by john giunta
ppint. 8th May 2024		Book Damon Knight - In Deep (1963)	publisher should be corrected to "berkley medallion" as bookcat goes by the imprint, not the publishing group name, nor the ultimate corporate owner
ppint. 8th May 2024		Book Damon Knight - In Deep (1972)	almost certainly scheduled and in production when macfadden books (and the larger macfadden-bartell corporation too?) were taken over and turned into manor books.
ppint. 7th May 2024		Book Michael Moorcock - The Warlord Of The Air (1978)	daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, not first mmpb edition cover art by gino d'achille (unsigned, credited) cover price $1.50 near-meaningless daw books collector no. 291 176 pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to printing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state first daw printing, may 1978 and both bear full first printing number line, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
ppint. 7th May 2024		Book Michael Moorcock - The Warlord Of The Air (1978)	shares the merkin-printed covers of the daw books, inc. mmpb first printing
ppint. 6th May 2024		Book Michael Moorcock - The Citadel Of Forgotten Myths (2022)	elric series #1.5: #1: "elric of melniboné" (1972), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 6th May 2024		Book Michael Moorcock - The Woods Of Arcady (2023)	the sanctuary of the white friars trilogy(?) #2: #1: "the whispering swarm" (2015), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 6th May 2024		Book Michael Moorcock - The Whispering Swarm (2015)	the sanctuary of the white friars trilogy(?) #1: #1: "the whispering swarm" (2015), (this book) #2: "the woods of arcady" (2023), q.v. #3: "the wounds of albion" (nyp)
ppint. 6th May 2024		Book Dean R. Koontz - The Long Sleep (1970)	popular library mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by jack faragasso (signed) 445-00325-125 number-string on cover is not an (i)sbn cover price $1.25 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 6th May 2024		Book Damon Knight - In Deep (1972)	manor books mmpb first printing, not first merkin mmpb edition cover art by jack faragasso (unsigned, uncredited) cover price 75¢ 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. 2/1973; near-identical manor books mmpb second printing differs: drops the mb logo from fly top corner of front cover, adds manor books in small black type vertically on two lines before the author's name cat# 75444 (i.e. drops the hyphen) indicia publishing history adds two lines: first printing. . . . august, 1972 second printing . . . . february, 1973
ppint. 6th May 2024		Book Christopher Priest - Inverted World (1974)	* - check if my faber h/cvr includes andrew stephenson's illustrations
ppint. 6th May 2024		Book Gail Kimberly - Flyer (1975)	art is for sale on ixgallery.com
ppint. 6th May 2024		Book James P. Fisher - The Great Brain Robbery (1970)	belmont publications belmont mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by jack faragasso (signed faragasso bottom edge or guillotined off, uncredited) cover price 75¢ 160pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, 6 end pp: 2 blank, 3 advertising, 1 mail-order form number-string 505-2072-075 on spine (nor sbn, nor isbn; last 3 digit element is cover price) date of printing nor publication given, copyright date year ©1970 taken as date of publication cover art was for sale (now sold) on ixgallery.com, faragasso's signature is clearly visible
ppint. 5th May 2024		Book G. McDonald Wallis - The Light Of Lilith (1961)	ace books mmpb first printing, first edition half a classic "ace double" format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other cover art by ed emshwiller (signed, uncredited) cover price 40¢ ½ 224pp. (check) including 2 x 4pp. titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves
ppint. 5th May 2024		Book George O. Smith - Fire In The Heavens (1959)	half ace books mmpb first printing, first edition half a classic "ace double" format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other cover art (unsigned, uncredited) cover price 35¢ ½ 256pp. including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves

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